I don't know. Perhaps Vaughan is giving himself an out but I've seen three reviews and they pretty much read like this one. And it's running at 100% at Rotten Tomatoes with 16 reviews, so who knows? At first blush it sure looks like he beat the odds.

"The most dementing of all modern sins: the inability to distinquish excellence from success."-David Hare

It's so awesome I'd buy a house with more rooms to find space to put it up....please, please, please, please, please, please, please, put this up for sale Marvel, I'd buy it in a freaking heartbeat!! And most likely buy several as backups in case anything happened to it!

"I ain't a boy, no I'm a man, and I believe in the Promised Land"-Coming to the USA on January 20, 2009!

Cap will be the best movie in history if they can find a way to keep up the hype while never actually releasing it. It would be like the myth of Jerry's racing prowess. (You're welcome for the gratuitous Seinfeld reference in the midst of a thread about Marvel super heroes.)

I'm just a horse, standing in front of a boy, asking him to love me. - Andrew Forbes

joblo,com wrote:Marvel's adamantium-laced anti-hero has been slowly clawing his way through development for a sequel, but THE WOLVERINE finally has a director.

Deadline says that James Mangold (3:10 TO YUMA, COP LAND) will sharpen Hugh Jackman's fist-knives for the movie, which is set almost entirely in Japan and follows the popular 80s comic story pitting Logan against a ninja clan. Christopher McQuarrie (THE USUAL SUSPECTS) penned the script.

Mangold (whose last movie was KNIGHT AND DAY) was on Fox's recent wish-list of possibilities to replace director Darren Aronofsky, who departed the project a few months back.

Filming is expected to start in the fall, which means the finished film could conceivably carve up theaters next summer.

joblo,com wrote:Marvel's adamantium-laced anti-hero has been slowly clawing his way through development for a sequel, but THE WOLVERINE finally has a director.

Deadline says that James Mangold (3:10 TO YUMA, COP LAND) will sharpen Hugh Jackman's fist-knives for the movie, which is set almost entirely in Japan and follows the popular 80s comic story pitting Logan against a ninja clan. Christopher McQuarrie (THE USUAL SUSPECTS) penned the script.

Mangold (whose last movie was KNIGHT AND DAY) was on Fox's recent wish-list of possibilities to replace director Darren Aronofsky, who departed the project a few months back.

Filming is expected to start in the fall, which means the finished film could conceivably carve up theaters next summer.

A solid choice and, provided Mangold is left alone/supported as much as Mathew Vaughn was on First Class, we might get a film as strong as the one we just recieved.

joblo,com wrote:Marvel's adamantium-laced anti-hero has been slowly clawing his way through development for a sequel, but THE WOLVERINE finally has a director.

Deadline says that James Mangold (3:10 TO YUMA, COP LAND) will sharpen Hugh Jackman's fist-knives for the movie, which is set almost entirely in Japan and follows the popular 80s comic story pitting Logan against a ninja clan. Christopher McQuarrie (THE USUAL SUSPECTS) penned the script.

Mangold (whose last movie was KNIGHT AND DAY) was on Fox's recent wish-list of possibilities to replace director Darren Aronofsky, who departed the project a few months back.

Filming is expected to start in the fall, which means the finished film could conceivably carve up theaters next summer.

A solid choice and, provided Mangold is left alone/supported as much as Mathew Vaughn was on First Class, we might get a film as strong as the one we just recieved.

JoshRode wrote:Nathan Fillion sent out this tweet: Hanging w college buds. One says, "...like when you were Capt Mallory." The other, "I liked when you played Cable." Dudes.

Can you picture Nathan Fillion as Cable?

I think the person meant to type "Caleb," the character Fillion played on Buffy. But as for playing Cabel...to be honest, why not? Cabel was never a terribly interesting character in the comics to start with, so reinventing the character to be playable by Fillion could only actually make the character more interesting than he is!

JoshRode wrote:Nathan Fillion sent out this tweet: Hanging w college buds. One says, "...like when you were Capt Mallory." The other, "I liked when you played Cable." Dudes.

Can you picture Nathan Fillion as Cable?

I think the person meant to type "Caleb," the character Fillion played on Buffy. But as for playing Cabel...to be honest, why not? Cabel was never a terribly interesting character in the comics to start with, so reinventing the character to be playable by Fillion could only actually make the character more interesting than he is!

Y'know, that's a good point. Plus, I'd be happy to see Fillion in just about any role. To paraphrase Clark Douglas, he could play former President Jimmy Carter and I'd totally watch.

I'm just a horse, standing in front of a boy, asking him to love me. - Andrew Forbes

JoshRode wrote:Nathan Fillion sent out this tweet: Hanging w college buds. One says, "...like when you were Capt Mallory." The other, "I liked when you played Cable." Dudes.

Can you picture Nathan Fillion as Cable?

I think the person meant to type "Caleb," the character Fillion played on Buffy. But as for playing Cabel...to be honest, why not? Cabel was never a terribly interesting character in the comics to start with, so reinventing the character to be playable by Fillion could only actually make the character more interesting than he is!

Y'know, that's a good point. Plus, I'd be happy to see Fillion in just about any role. To paraphrase Clark Douglas, he could play former President Jimmy Carter and I'd totally watch.

Let's not worry people. Branagh did a very good job but it isn't like there aren't a lot of other, very good directors to chose from. Everyone scratched their head when they signed Branagh in the first place. Have a little faith and wait & see how this plays out. If I had to pick one director I would go with Alfonso Cuarón. If I could pick two, I'd add Brad Bird to the list. Three? Return back to Mathew Vaughan who was originally slated to direct the first one.

"The most dementing of all modern sins: the inability to distinquish excellence from success."-David Hare

Eh. Still not worried. Both Super Ex & Fantastic Four came out of Fox where a screenplay is more often than not a suggestion rather than what they shoot. Let the process move along and what I saw this morning said Roos was hired to work on the script, not write the actual screenplay. And on top of that, a director is not in place yet and once that happens the screenplay will have another set of hands. Way too early to get nervous about anything.

"The most dementing of all modern sins: the inability to distinquish excellence from success."-David Hare

I don't understand some fans crying foul with Don Payne coming back for Thor 2. He co-wrote the solid first one, and if production has anything to say about it, it'll get rewritten by another pair of writers once a director is attached. Not worried at all.

And all the CA stuff is fantastic. The new trailer, score clips -- the movie had better live up to expectations.

"Aliens conquering Earth would be fine with me, as long as they make me their queen."- Gillian Anderson

azul017 wrote:I don't understand some fans crying foul with Don Payne coming back for Thor 2. He co-wrote the solid first one, and if production has anything to say about it, it'll get rewritten by another pair of writers once a director is attached. Not worried at all.

And all the CA stuff is fantastic. The new trailer, score clips -- the movie had better live up to expectations.

Cap can't possibly live up to its hype at this point. Everyone needs to find a way to lower their expectations before it's too late.

I'm just a horse, standing in front of a boy, asking him to love me. - Andrew Forbes

I honestly think the trailer does a pretty solid job of portraying the film, much like Thor and X-Men: First Class did. I've got a pretty good idea of what exactly to expect given the trailer, the director, and the material.

I'd wager there's about a 95% chance that if you dug the trailer, you'll dig the flick

HGervais wrote:13 minutes of Alan Silvesti's score for Captain America is up for your listening pleasure right here..

Just enough bombast mixed with a healthy dose of tense beats, some Saving Private Ryan-esque moody bits, and of course some "rah! rah!" patriotism. I like. Very fitting.

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The Rocketeer meets Raiders and hires The A-Team. Makes modern actions scores sound like a slow ride to Grandma's house. This reminds me of being nine years old and watching Cliff Secord roll the Gee-Bee out onto the runway for the first time. I like it.

Dunnyman wrote:Then again, it might have beaten out Flash Gordon in the Cheesiest CrapFest Hero Flick Ever Committed To Film Award....

Don't you badmouth Flash Gordon! DON'T YOU BADMOUTH FLASH GORDON!

::sob::

That's right! He's the defender of the universe! He'll save every one of us! He's a miracle!

Don't get me wrong I LOVE Flash Gordon, as I loooove cheesy crapfests, but it's overwhelming lack of....Academy love was for a pretty good reason... Good flick to have a few beers though and do your MST3K thing to though....and the soundtrack is forever etched in my eardrums. FLASH! AH-AAAAH!!

"I ain't a boy, no I'm a man, and I believe in the Promised Land"-Coming to the USA on January 20, 2009!

They said they're going to have Spider-Man tossing quips to the bad guys, but this feels like Raimi's first film remade by a David Fincher and Chris Nolan imitator. I do like Emma Stone and Rhys Ifans though.

"Aliens conquering Earth would be fine with me, as long as they make me their queen."- Gillian Anderson

This one seems to have a good sense of the tone it's going for, even if it is riding the Batman Begins wave. Raimi's movies alternated between effective comedy and atrocious drama. If this script avoids emulating the awful dialogue of the Raimi flicks, I'll be a happy man. I'm optimistic.

Also, Andrew Garfield is exactly the right body-type for this. Oh, and he can actually act.